Re: New PL/Perl failure with Safe 2.2x due to recursion (8.x & 9.0)

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:58:17PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 20:37, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 20:19, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >>> Seems entirely unacceptable.
>
> >> I think we will see if we can get this fixed on the Safe/perl side then.
>
> > BTW the trade off here is we revert back to sort { $a <=> $b } not
> > working. That is if you could call it a trade off... The level of
> > breaking is not really comparable :)
>
> That's two unacceptable alternatives, you need to find a third one.
> I think most people will have no trouble settling on "do not update
> to Safe 2.2x" if you don't offer a better solution than these.

I believe the next version of Safe will revert to Safe 1.19 behaviour
because the side effects of the change in 2.20 are too severe for it to
be left enabled by default.

Tim.